{"id":1434,"date":"2009-11-25T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2009\/11\/annual-thanks-giving-rant\/"},"modified":"2017-01-26T22:32:45","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T03:32:45","slug":"annual-thanks-giving-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2009\/11\/annual-thanks-giving-rant.html","title":{"rendered":"Annual Thanks Giving Rant&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u2026 it just isn\u2019t a holiday with out Mass hijacks and indignant rants. Cheers. <\/p>\n<p>Look, I love Thanksgiving and eating turkey till I pass out and wallowing in gluttony as much as the next guy\u2026 but why does this have to be reflected in the Mass with all kinds of kook boogery?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Case in point #1:<\/strong> the annual ecumenical interfaith worship service. blech.<br><strong>Case in point #2:<\/strong> a parish, who shall remain anonymous \u2026 but those who know me can probably figure it out\u2026 is having the parish write \u2018thank you\u2019 notes and place them in a basket. The <em>basket of thank fullness<\/em> will then be presented at the altar <em>during<\/em> Mass by high school and middle school youth. seriously. Blech. <\/p>\n<p>Last time I checked\u2026 the mass <em>was<\/em> thanks giving\u2026 hell, \u201cEucharist\u201d even means thanks giving. 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